Sökning: "American Civil War"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden American Civil War.

  1. 1. The Politics of Combat : The Political and Strategic Impact of Tactical-Level Subcultures, 1939-1995

    Författare :Tony Ingesson; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; implementation; Public Administration; civil-military relations; strategic; tactical; military; combat; war; security; strategic corporal; submarines; u-boats; Yom Kippur War; WWII; Bosnia War; Nordbat; Dutchbat; Srebrenica; Song My; My Lai; Ubootwaffe; Dönitz; Totenkopfverbände; Eicke; Concentration camps; Holocaust; atrocities; subcultures;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation argues that lower-level military leaders, commanding between a dozen and a few hundred troops, can have a major political and strategic impact. Furthermore, it is argued that the decisions made by these lower-level military leaders are shaped by subcultures, in particular under conditions of stress and uncertainty. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Foreign Intervention in Internal Wars : The Case of the Nigerian Civil War 1967-70

    Författare :Ted Gogote Badom; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; internal wars; Intervention; civil war; Statsvetenskap; Political and administrative sciences; Nigeria; förvaltningskunskap;

    Sammanfattning : Scholars of widely diverging persuasions have recognized the implications of the world constellation in which the discourse on foreign intervention with all its manifestations in a civil war has an explanatory value. How-ever, a number of long-standing theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenges still resist clearcut solution. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Fall in Line : Genus, kropp och minnena av det amerikanska inbördeskriget i skandinavisk reenactment

    Författare :Marie Bennedahl; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender; Memory; Reenactment; Autoethnography; Queer phenomenology; American Civil War; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : “Fall in line” is a military command used when the American Civil War is reenacted in Scandinavia, ordering the soldiers to stand in a row. The command can also be used as a metaphor for the adaptations reenactors make as a group to guidelines, originating from collective memories of the Civil War. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Remaking Iraq: Neoliberalism and a System of Violence after the US invasion​, 2003-2011

    Författare :Thomas Sommer-Houdeville; Vanessa Barker; Jens Rydgren; Derek Gregory; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Iraq; US; Civil War; Neoliberalism; Neoliberal Rationality; Muhasasah; Sectarian Cleansing; Culturalisation of Politics; Depoliticisation; Space; Market State; Sectarianism; Identity Politics; Essentialisation; Ritualised Violence; State Building; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : After the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam regime in 2003, the US administration undertook the complete remaking of Iraq as a national-state. The initial steps of the US administration were the quasi eradication of the old Iraqi State. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Tredje världen i nyheterna : en fallstudie av tretton utländska tidningars rapportering från inbördeskriget i Nigeria 1967-1970

    Författare :Stig Arne Nohrstedt; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; third world news; ideology; distortion; new international information order; Political Science; Statskunskap; Political science;

    Sammanfattning : The debate concerning a new international information order has raised two important issues: the question of balance and the question of distortion. This case study of the news coverage of the Third World, mainly in Western publications, is devoted to the latter issue. LÄS MER